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The Latest
2019 News
from HA Design Group:
HA Design Group Grows and engages Industry Sales
and Technical Veteran as Director of Sales with a Global
Territory
Springfield, Virginia December 3, 2019 —
HA
Design Group LLC is experiencing first hand the morphing
of our collective industries. Willy Halla is bringing
Kevin Basquill, a veteran in the industry, to join their
team as Director of Sales, managing a Global Territory
(see story at
This Link)
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Washington DC February 2019: NRCC AV System
Lifecycle Equipment Refresh
HA Design Group has collaborated with FEMA’s
Technical Staff and stakeholders to develop a
design for implementation involving its National
Response Coordination Center (NRCC) audiovisual
operations. This DC HQ technical facility is
incorporating new audiovisual tools that expand
the input of media information with flexible
multiple room presentation options and controls.
These AV facilities assist the FEMA managers and
other gathered federal agency staff to conduct
regular planning meetings and closely monitor
actions during federally-declared emergency
conditions.
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Woodbridge, Virginia 2017-19:
Prince William County Multi-Year Contract AV
Award
As part of a multi-year
design, engineering, and AV construction project
award initiated in 2016 with extension options
into 2021, HA Design Group has
worked closely with the County Administration
and technical project staff with vendors to
propose and deliver updated facilities
for the PWC Communications Department for
numerous PWC groups and locations across the
County including:
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The PWC McCoart
Building Meeting Chamber and associated
technical facilities
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The Department of
Social Services Conference Room
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Chinn Library Studio
Facilities
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The Department of
Public Works Meeting Room
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During 2019 the Chinn
studio facilities including the set,
lighting, acoustics, and control room will
be completed along with additional
enhancements to the McCoart Meeting Chamber
and associated technical facilities.
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Washington DC October 2018:
Studio 50 Upgrade
Washington DC: HA Design
Group successfully completed a high-profile
studio 50 project with a new set and integrated
3X3 display monitor wall under an accelerated
schedule. With regular weekly meetings, close
coordination with the set designer, set
fabricator, and Planar video wall technical team
allowed the project team to complete the design,
acquisition, and installation within 45 days of
the contract award. The implementation
team worked during the over night timeframe to
keep the studio facilities in use during the new
install transition. The link below shows images
from the completed studio 50 set.
Studio 50
Images
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During 2017 through 2019,
HA Design Group has been awarded numerous client
contracts for software and hardware systems.
The Broadcast/Audiovisual/IT Equipment client
awards and shipments include:
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NewTek, Sony, Bionics, Broadcast Pix, Live U, Teradek,
AVID
Broadcast Infrastructure
Vendors:
Grass Valley, Evertz, Imagine, LeGrand
Test Equipment
Vendors:
Tektronix
IT computers, Networking,
and Storage
Vendors: HPe, Cisco,
Dell/EMC, Spectralogic, Xendata
AV Systems
Vendors: Panasonic,
Sony, Shure, Crestron, Samsung, Kramer
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Washington DC: 2018
Detailed Review of USAGM Studios and Radio/TV
Broadcasting Facilities in Washington DC
As part of its long-term contract award with BBG
now named the U.S. Agency for Global Media
(USAGM), in 2018 HA Design Group conducted a
comprehensive inspection, analysis, and report
of the USAGM 150+ television and radio
facilities. The focus of this consulting study
for the senior leaders and management was to
discuss and report on the agency’s technical,
acoustic, lighting, set/scenery, and related
workflow, techniques, and broadcast capabilities
going forward.
USAGM will incorporate the ideas and
guidance in 2019 as it continues to embrace,
expand, and deliver on a wide range of
programming goals worldwide encompassing
multi-lingual web, social media, television, and
radio content
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Washington DC: As part of
its long-term 2016 contract award with
Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), HA Design
Group has been acquiring and providing
innovative broadcast television and IP
networking equipment solutions. These new systems
are part of BBG’s production and master control
broadcast upgrades including integrated IP/baseband HD-SDI
play out servers from Grass Valley.
BBG has been expanding its use of Dalet’s
television and radio media asset management
(MAM) systems for generation of BBG’s 50+
multilingual daily news programming delivered
worldwide. BBG’s production staff acquires news
footage from the wire sources and in-house
productions to create original
news packages stored on its Dalet MAM systems. The
news content is then edited to create the
individual BBG language service shows that are
distributed to affiliates around the world.
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Columbus, Ohio: In 2017
the BEMC centralized Joint Master Control (JMC)
has enhanced its automated play out by
establishing Myers ProTracks’ close BXF
integration with IP broadcast play out software
from Cinegy. The bidirectional BXF exchange is
performing “live update” media processing in
support of BEMC’s digital programming channels
(42) on behalf of Ohio’s group of eight PBS
member stations and The Ohio Channel.
Starting with the award of a design and installation
contract in April 2015, HA Design Group has
worked closely with the Columbus, Ohio based
Broadcast Educational Media Commission (BEMC)
and the Ohio Educational Television Stations,
PBS member stations in 8 markets, who are
linked together through the state-wide OARnet®
IP network. The goals of the BEMC system upgrade
include increased operational efficiency and
reduced long term capital cost for the Stations
and the State of Ohio, while modernizing the
Network Operations Center that BEMC provides to
benefit multiple constituencies in Ohio. Early
in the process, the Stations identified
facilitating future digital services, and
providing for a centralized origination center
in Columbus as important goals the project is
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Pyeongtaek ROK: HA Design Group has assisted
the AFN organization in 2016 to complete its
intra-Korean move and transition into a new
broadcast building location at Camp Humphreys in
S. Korea. The technical and engineering services
included the review and oversight of the new
facility design followed by the onsite
configuration of the new integrated HD
television and radio systems. HA Design Group
also provided as-built drawing documentation for
the new AFN broadcast facility that incorporates 4 radio studios, large TV
studio and production control room, monitoring
control room, and satellite/signal ingest
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Bemidji, Minnesota:
Lakeland Public Television, producing and
operating multiple channels in northern
Minnesota (KAWE & KAWB), decided to move into
new headquarters during 2015 and transform its
technical broadcast platform at the same time.
Facing a Sundance automation replacement for its
TV channels due to near-term obsolescence,
Lakeland's senior management sought an
integrated broadcast software solution utilizing
IT commodity hardware for cost-effectiveness.
Their technical approach and focus tracks the
broadcast industry's trend away from proprietary solutions
and towards support for the emerging media
industry standards generated under the BXF, AIM,
SMPTE, and AMWA industry/vendor
group associations. A detailed discussion of Lakeland
Public Television's new system,
based on the Cinegy software suite, can be found
in the following pdf file link.
Lakeland
Cinegy story |
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Project Overview
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Alexandria,
Virginia.: HA Design Group
has completed the build out
and commissioning of the PBS
DDMS (Disaster Recovery,
Diversity & Maintenance
Site) that began with
off-site integration efforts
at the HA Design Facility in
Springfield, Virginia.
The new PBS network
operations center (NOC)
system is a fully functional
back-up NOC since 2015 with
the IT-oriented systems and
racks (22)commissioned on
site at the Nebraska
Educational
Telecommunications (NET)
location. For additional
information please use the
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New
Facility
NPR New HQ
HQ Architect
NPR HQ Bldg |
Washington,
D.C.: HA Design
Group successfully completed its multiyear
technical collaboration with the
National Public Radio
engineering organizations
with an integrated design,
engineering, and commissioning of its new
Headquarters building including
broadcast production and origination
facilities. The NPR organization's
transition into its new headquarters
building was
completed in 2013. For additional
information and facility details please use the
magazine story nearby links.
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Washington, D.C. -- April 2015:
HA Design Group has begun the
Phase 2 design and technical
documentation upgrade for CNN's
Washington, D.C. bureau news and
media facilities.
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Bethesda, Maryland -- March
2015: A new NIH campus-based
television operations center is
under design that will enhance
the campus-wide support and
dissemination of live meeting
and campus events bringing
together world-class scientists
to exchange and communicate
NIH's world-renowned biological
and medical research.
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Bemidji, MN -- February 2015:
Lakeland Public Television
(LPTV) has selected HA Design
Group and the Cinegy broadcast
software platform as it
transitions its television
broadcast operation into a new
facility location. The Cinegy
software modules are integrated
together to operate on a
standard IT network using
Windows hardware servers and
PCs. Lakeland PTV's new
broadcast home is expected to be
completed in April 2015.
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Atlanta, Georgia -- February
2015: HA Design Group has been
selected by Georgia Public
Broadcasting to update their two
audio control room capabilities
with a project for the design,
engineering, and installation of
two Studer Vista 9 consoles.
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Alexandria, Virginia -- January
2015: HA Design Group
collaborated with the PBS WARN
project team to design,
integrate, and incorporate a new
messaging platform into PBS's
broadcast channel origination
and distribution platform. The
new national messaging platform,
known as WARN, is under the
auspices of the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS). WARN
will soon replace the older EAS
(Emergency Alert System) that
uses the PBS distribution
capabilities for the
communication of breaking news
and events to a nationwide
audience.
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Memphis,
Tennessee -- December 2014: HA
Design Group completed the
design and upgrade of FedEx's
headquarters
broadcast facility creating a
corporate-wide media asset
management system with automated
multichannel play-out channels
for its scheduled communications and
training channels worldwide.
photos
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Portland, Oregon -- September
2014: Oregon Public Broadcasting
(OPB) selected HA Design Group
to provide two Cinegy
Windows-based servers and
establish a cost-effective
diversity platform. The two CIAB
(channel in a box) servers are
located offsite near the
station's transmission systems
and are controlled through
remote access by OPB's staff.
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Washington, D.C. -- August 2014:
HA Design Group was selected to
provide engineering and design
documentation for the CNN
Washington D.C. bureau's Phase 1 control
room refresh and the design
documentation work was
successfully completed in August
2014.
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Memphis,
Tenn. -- March 2014:
HA Design Group has been
selected to provide a
comprehensive technical design and
project implementation solution
involving a corporate-wide, IT-centric
media asset management (MAM) system
at the
Federal Express headquarters
location in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Washington, D.C. --
February 2014: HA Design
Group was selected to provide
broadcast systems technical support for the
Pentagon Briefing Room.
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Washington, D.C. --
October 2013: HA Design
Group was selected for the
Broadcasting Board of Governors
(BBG) BC-Logs
replacement. BBG is replacing
their venerable BC Logs program
with a new Microsoft SQL-based
report generation
system that will allow the BBG
media users to search for reference
multimedia programs
that have aired in the past.
With 50 language services, each
with their own channels and
shows, along with 12 television
channels on satellite and more
distributed through the internet, the scope of the
BC Logs media file database
system is enormous. The BBG and
its media organizations such as
the Voice of America (VOA)
generate over 3000+ hours of
programming each week to reach
viewing and listening audiences
that number 300+ million
worldwide.
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Honolulu,
Hawaii -- July 2013: HA Design
Group has been selected to
provide broadcast design
services for the KHET television
station (PBS Hawaii) scheduled
to begin operations in a new
broadcast building location in
early 2015. KHET and and its
architect Group 70 International
have reached for HA Design Group
to perform a schematic review of
the new location building plans
in preparation of construction
documents and local planning
commission approvals that will
be followed by a comprehensive
detail design of KHET's broadcast
equipment facilities and
technical operations.
New York City,
NY -- July 2013: HA Design Group
completes upgrade to Voice of
America's New York City
television studios and digital
broadcast facilities including 2
studios, production control
room, IT installations, and
more.
linked press release
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Washington, DC
-- April 2013: HA Design Group
has completed its collaboration
with the NPR PRSS (Public Radio
Satellite System) Engineering
Team in the
design/build/transition of its
new Network Operations Center
(NOC). The new NOC is part of
the PRSS technical facilities
located at NPR's new HQ
building. For additional details
please connect to the following
linked article.
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